Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

360 Aph. 5. Tiá :Treó. Crain of Principles. and for evil, Mofes inNumbers fpeaking of the remarkable judgement inflieted on Korah and his complices ufeth this. exprefsion, Si creationem creaverít Deus, ifGod created a creature the radix is ..'4`.4-1 Or limitedly,wixh fome reflraint; and that either flritly, for the genera- tion of living, creatures in a natural way fo in Horace, Fortes creantur for- tibus bonis, and inVirgil, Sùlmone cre= atos quatuor hic juvenes. Whence alto, procreare, or more flritly, for the ma- king of a thing out of force prxex- iflent matter, but fuclr as- is naturally indifpofed and unapt for that pro- durion, whereas in generation there is always materia habilis difiofita; as when God created man of the dull of the earth, and womanof mans rib, or moll flri&ly, for the produaionofa thing without anyprxexiflent matter at all out of merenothing ; weare to fpeak of it in the two latter fenfes, for fo it belongeth to. God alone. Thus faith the ord. thy deemer ,. and he that formed,

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